Overview
- Examines the ways in which to transform industrial cities into smart cities
- Explores the economic development and sustainability of smart cities
- Features case examples of innovative practices and policies around the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
• Citizen participation and empowerment
• Value creation mechanisms
• Public administration
• Quality of life and sustainability
• Democracy
• ICT
• Private initiatives and entrepreneurship
Regardless of their size, all cities are ultimately agglomerations of people and institutions. Agglomeration economies make it possible to attain minimum efficiencies of scale in the organization and delivery of services. However, the economic benefits do not constitute the main advantage of a city. A city’s status rests on three dimensions: (1) political impetus, which is the result of citizens’ participation and the public administration’s agenda; (2) applications derived from technological advances (especially in ICT); and (3) cooperation between public and private initiatives in business development and entrepreneurship. These three dimensions determine which resources are necessary to create smart cities. But a smart city, ideal in the way it channels and resolves technological, social and economic-growth issues, requires many additional elements to function at a high-performance level, such as culture (an environment that empowers and engages citizens) and physical infrastructure designed to foster competition and collaboration, encourage new ideas and actions, and set the stage for new business creation.
Featuring contributions with models, tools and cases from around the world, this book will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, academics, professionals and policymakers interested in smart cities.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Smart Cities
Book Subtitle: Creating Spaces for Technological, Social and Business Development
Editors: Marta Peris-Ortiz, Dag R. Bennett, Diana Pérez-Bustamante Yábar
Series Title: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40895-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40894-1Published: 13 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82211-2Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40895-8Published: 05 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-5698
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 224
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Sustainability Management, Urban Economics, Development Economics